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This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 09:14
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...
Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2023
- Length: 53:27
- Purchases: 45
Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The hilarious and heartfelt saga of a childless godparent.
Bought by KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2023
- Length: 01:58:05
- Purchases: 29
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Interview with Heather McTeer Toney, Senior Adviser at Mom's Clean Air Force.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 21:32
Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 21:04
Brandon Anderson spent nearly five years in the Army, deploying twice to Iraq between 2003 and 2008. But as a gay service member during the Don’t A...
Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KUT, RadioStPete Florida, and Texas Public Radio
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Stayci Bell is a daughter, mother, grandmother, gardener, photographer, actress, puppeteer, healer, leader and story tell. Stayci defines her self ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:12
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 59:07
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina Sacred Steel player DaShawn Hickman plus singer and finger...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 42
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
Change - Tony Lindsay is a producer and director, known for "Where Hearts Lie" (2016). The film features such notable actors as Clifton Powell ("Ra...
- Added: Mar 19, 2022
- Length: 01:42
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 04:21
A secret meeting threatens to derail Jackie Robinson's ascent to the majors.
Bought by KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WPCA-LP, KALW and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 17
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
